The Prophet Zechariah

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- Chapter 2 -

(Ezekiel 40:1–4)

Then I looked up and saw a man with a surveyor’s line.

I asked him, “Where are you going?” He replied, “I am going to survey Jerusalem, to determine how wide it is and how long it is.”

Then the angel who had been talking to me started to leave, and another angel walked toward him.

The second angel said to him, “Run and tell that young man with the surveyor’s line: Some day there will be very many people and livestock in Jerusalem, so they will not all be able to live inside the city walls; many will live outside the walls in the open country.

Yahweh says that he himself will be like a wall of fire around the city, and he will be among the people with his glory.”

The Redemption of Zion

(Hosea 3:1–5)

Yahweh declares to the people who the Babylonians took away as slaves: “Run! Run! Flee from Babylonia, and flee from the places where I scattered you to the four winds!”

Run! You who now live in Babylon, run here to Jerusalem!”

Yahweh, Commander of the angel armies, honored me by telling me to go to the nations who took everything you owned, for those who harm you harm what is most precious to him! After he did that, he said this to me:

“Tell them that I, Yahweh, will attack them. Their own slaves will take back their possessions from them, the people who had taken them in the first place.” When that happens, you Jewish people will know that Yahweh, Commander of the angel armies, is the one who sent me, Zechariah, as a prophet.

Yahweh says, “You people of Jerusalem, shout and be happy, because I will come to you and live among you!”

At that time, people of many nations will join with Yahweh and become his people. He will live among all of you; and you will know that Yahweh, powerful Commander of the angel armies, is the one who sent me to you as a prophet.

The people of Judah will be a very special part of his own land, and Jerusalem will again be the city that he has chosen.

Everyone, everywhere, should be silent in the presence of Yahweh, because he is about to come down again from where he lives in heaven to do great things for us.

(Ezekiel 40:1–4)

I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and behold, a man with a measuring line in his hand.

Then I asked, “Where are you going?” He said to me, “To measure Jerusalem, to see what is its width and what is its length.”

Behold, the angel who talked with me went out, and another angel went out to meet him,

and said to him, “Run, speak to this young man, saying, ‘Jerusalem will be inhabited as villages without walls, because of the multitude of men and livestock in it.

For I,’ says the LORD, ‘will be to her a wall of fire around it, and I will be the glory in the middle of her.

The Redemption of Zion

(Hosea 3:1–5)

Come! Come! Flee from the land of the north,’ says the LORD; ‘for I have spread you abroad as the four winds of the sky,’ says the LORD.

‘Come, Zion! Escape, you who dwell with the daughter of Babylon.’

For the LORD of Armies says: ‘For honor he has sent me to the nations which plundered you; for he who touches you touches the apple of his eye.

For, behold, I will shake my hand over them, and they will be a plunder to those who served them; and you will know that the LORD of Armies has sent me.

Sing and rejoice, daughter of Zion! For behold, I come and I will dwell within you,’ says the LORD.

Many nations shall join themselves to the LORD in that day, and shall be my people; and I will dwell among you, and you shall know that the LORD of Armies has sent me to you.

The LORD will inherit Judah as his portion in the holy land, and will again choose Jerusalem.

Be silent, all flesh, before the LORD; for he has roused himself from his holy habitation!”